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10th Parachute Division (France)
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The 10th Parachute Division was a formation of the French Army, part of the French Airborne Units. It consisted predominantly of infantry troops and it specialized in airborne combat and air assault. Established in 1956, it primarily in the Suez Crisis. It was dissolved immediately after the Algiers putsch of 1961, on July 1,1956, the 10e D. P. Barely created, the 10e D. P. took part in the Suez Crisis in Egypt, the 10e D. P was reinforced for this purpose with, One squadron of the 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment comprising 148 men and 17 AMX-13. Although the battle was a success, allied troops had to withdrawn due to pressure from the United States. In Algiers, the National Liberation Front was carrying out a wave of terrorist attacks an urban guerilla which made many casualties, in January 1957, Robert Lacoste, Minister Resident in Algeria, reacted by giving full powers to General Massu over the Algiers area. Massu sent the 10e D. P. to search out, arrest, the battle of Algiers proved to be a clear success for the French military, with most prominent FLN leaders killed or arrested and terrorist attacks effectively stopped. However, the use of torture against some FLN members led to an opposition to war in France. In 1956, the newly independent Republic of Tunisia was helping the FLN by smuggling weapons, the electrified fence known as the Morice Line was built up to prevent Algerian FLN guerrillas from entering the French colony of Algeria from Tunisia. The 10e D. P. was assigned to the surveillance of a portion of the electrified border, the Morice Line had a significant impact of the reduction of guerrillas activities by forces that originated from Tunisia. However, general Massu, the officer of the 10e D. P. was relieved of his command as he criticized president Charles de Gaulles actions. Despite the military successes, French Prime Minister Michel Debrés government started secret negotiations with the anti-colonialist FLN in order to grant independence to Algeria, French settlers and soldiers were stunned by this decision and a putsch was organized in Algiers. With the exception of the 3e RPIMa, the rest of the 10e D. P. supported the coup. When the putsch failed the 25e D. P. along with the 10e D. P. were dissolved and the 1er R. E. P was the only regiment disbanded. Except for the Legionnaires of the 1e REP that conserve the Green Beret, the Archangel Saint Michael, patron of the French paratroopers is celebrated on September 29. The prière du Para was written by André Zirnheld in 1938, just like the paratrooper Brevet of the French Army, the Insignia of French Paratroopers was created in 1946. The French Army Insignia of metropolitan Paratroopers represents a closed <<winged armed dextrochere>>, the Insignia makes reference to the Patron of Paratroopers

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British Indian Army
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The Indian Army was the principal army of India before independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of both British India and the Princely states, which could also have their own armies. The Indian Army was an important part of the British Empires forces, the term Indian Army appears to have been first used informally, as a collective description of the Presidency armies of the Presidencies of British India, particularly after the Indian Rebellion. The first army officially called the Indian Army was raised by the government of India in 1895, however, in 1903 the Indian Army absorbed these three armies. The Indian Army should not be confused with the Army of India which was the Indian Army itself plus the British Army in India, before 1858, the precursor units of the Indian Army were units controlled by the Company and were paid for by their profits. These operated alongside units of the British Army, funded by the British government in London. Many of these took part in the Indian Mutiny, with the aim of reinstating the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II at Delhi. The meaning of the term Indian Army has changed over time, The officer commanding the Army of India was the Commander-in-Chief, the title was used before the creation of a unified British Indian Army, the first holder was Major General Stringer Lawrence in 1748. By the early 1900s the Commander-in-Chief and his staff were based at GHQ India, Indian Army postings were less prestigious than British Army positions, but the pay was significantly greater so that officers could live on their salaries instead of having to have a private income. Accordingly, vacancies in the Indian Army were much sought after and generally reserved for the higher placed officer-cadets graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. British officers in the Indian Army were expected to learn to speak the Indian languages of their men, prominent British Indian Army officers included Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, Claude Auchinleck and William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim. Commissioned officers, British and Indian, held identical ranks to commissioned officers of the British Army, Kings Commissioned Indian Officers, created from the 1920s, held equal powers to British officers. Viceroys Commissioned Officers were Indians holding officer ranks and they were treated in almost all respects as commissioned officers, but had authority over Indian troops only, and were subordinate to all British Kings Commissioned Officers and KCIOs. They included Subedar Major or Risaldar-Major, equivalents to a British Major, Subedar or Risaldar equivalents to Captain, recruitment was entirely voluntary, about 1.75 million men served in the First World War, many on the Western Front and 2.5 million in the Second. Soldier ranks included Sepoys or Sowars, equivalent to a British private, British Army ranks such as gunner and sapper were used by other corps. In the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. The three Presidency armies remained separate forces, each with its own Commander-in-Chief, overall operational control was exercised by the Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army, who was formally the Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies. From 1861, most of the manpower was pooled in the three Presidential Staff Corps

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10th Mountain Division
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The 10th Mountain Division is a light infantry division in the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York. Originally constituted as a mountain warfare unit, the division was the one of its size to receive intense specialized training for fighting in mountainous. Today, the 10th honors that legacy by retaining the Mountain designation, on 5 May 1945 the Division reached Nauders, Austria, beyond the Resia Pass, where it made contact with German forces being pushed south by the U. S. A status quo was maintained until the enemy headquarters involved had completed their surrender to the Seventh, on the 6th, 10th Mountain troops met the 44th Infantry Division of Seventh Army. Following the war, the division was inactivated, only to be reactivated and redesignated as the 10th Infantry Division in 1948. The division first acted as a division and, in 1954, was converted to a full combat division. Reactivated again in 1985, the division was designated the 10th Mountain Division to historically tie it to the World War II division, since its reactivation, the division or elements of the division have deployed numerous times. Since 2001, the division and its four combat brigades have seen over 20 deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, respectively. The 10th Division was originally organized in 1918 as a Regular Army, however, it did not go overseas and demobilized in February 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas. It was redesignated the Panama Canal Division after the war and shares no connection with the 10th Mountain Division activated during World War II. In November 1939, during the Soviet Unions invasion of Finland, the U. S. Army authorized the formation of the platoon sized Army Ski Patrol in November 1940. The first Patrol was formed at Camp Murray as part of the 41st Infantry Division under Lt. Ralph S. Phelps and this required an overhaul of U. S. military doctrine, as the concept of winter warfare had not been tested in the army since 1914. At first, planners envisioned ten mountain divisions, but personnel shortages revised the goal to three, eventually, the 10th Mountain Division would be the only one brought to active duty. The Italian military had lost a disastrous 25,000 men in the campaign because of their lack of preparedness to fight in the mountains, on 22 October 1941, General Marshall decided to form the first battalion of mountain warfare troops for a new mountain division. The Ski Patrol would assist in its training, on 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the army activated its first mountain unit, the 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington, south of Tacoma. It was the first mountain warfare unit in U. S. military history, the National Ski Patrol took on the unique role of recruiting for the 87th Infantry Regiment and later the division, becoming the only civilian recruiting agency in military history. The 87th trained in harsh conditions, including Mount Rainiers 14, 411-foot peak, initial training was conducted by Olympian Rolf Monsen. A new garrison was built for the division in central Colorado at Camp Hale, the U. S. Army Mountain Warfare School was eventually established at nearby Camp Carson in late 1942, and began to oversee mountain warfare training

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10th Panzer Division (Bundeswehr)
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The 10th Armoured Division is an armoured division of the German Army, part of the Bundeswehr. Its staff is based at Veitshöchheim, the division is a unit of the German Armys stabilization forces and specializes in conflicts of low intensity. This division was founded as the 10, panzerdivision of the new German Army in 1959. Originally only consisting of armoured units, it is now also commands Germanys last mountain warfare unit, for this reason the Edelweiss badge has become another commonly used insignia to denote allegiance to this formation. After 1993 troops of this division participated in overseas deployments. Among them were the first out-of-area land deployment operations for the Bundeswehr, troops were deployed to Somalia from 1993 to 1994 and to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1995 to 1996 and stayed in this country until 1998. Soldiers of the 10th Armoured Divisions SFOR contingent were involved in the Bundeswehrs first combat operation in 1997. In 2000, the 10th Armoured Division deployed more than 8,000 personnel to the Balkans, between 2002 and 2003, it deployed to various operations in the Balkans and in Afghanistan

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10th Armored Division (United States)
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The 10th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. In the European Theater of Operations the 10th Armored Division was part of both the Twelfth United States Army Group and Sixth United States Army Group. Originally assigned to the Third United States Army under General George S. Patton, the 10th Armored Division was inactivated on 13 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. On 25 February 1953, the division was allotted to the Regular Army, the division was activated on 15 July 1942, at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Tiger nickname of the 10th originates from a division-wide contest held while it was training in the United States, symbolizing the division clawing and mauling its way through the enemy. Leaving Teurtheville,25 October, the Division moved to Mars-la-Tour, later that month, the 10th participated in the capture of Metz. It was the first time in 1500 years that the ancient fortress at Metz fell, after fierce fighting, the 10th moved to the Siegfried Line and led the Third Army into Germany on 19 November 1944. Combat Command-B’s lead Sherman tanks, tank destroyers and half-tracks entered Bastogne 18 December 1944 and these were the first combat troops to reach the threatened city. CCB’s commander, Col. William L. Roberts, split his command to form an arc facing eastward five miles from the city. A task force commanded by Maj. William R. Desobry went north to Noville, while a group under Lt. Col. Henry T. Lt. Col. James OHara’s group shifted southeast to Bras, at the same time, German forces moved westward with increasing momentum. Bastogne, a hub from which seven main roads diverged, was essential to the movement of Rundstedt’s panzers. Before dawn of 19 December five Nazi divisions attacked CCB, bazooka-armed American soldiers and a single platoon of tank destroyers fought a column of German Panzer IV tanks on the Houffalize-Noville highway, turning them back after a furious engagement. More enemy armor followed and with the road blocked, the battle spilled into the fields and woods. For eight hours, CCB alone withstood multiple German attacks before reinforcements arrived from the 101st Airborne Division, the Germans still maintained an advantage and the outnumbered Americans withdrew closer to Bastogne. The Germans sent pincers to the north and south, the night of 21 December, the pincers met and closed west of the city. In the surrounded city, the 10th assembled a reserve force to strike in any direction. CCB endured the cold, artillery barrages and bombing while their supplies, fourth Armored Division tanks finally broke through on 26 December, but CCB continued to fight until 18 January

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10th (Irish) Division
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The 10th Division, was one of the first of Kitcheners New Army K1 Army Group divisions, authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War. It included battalions from the provinces of Ireland. It was led by Irish General Bryan Mahon and fought at Gallipoli, Salonika and it was the first of the Irish Divisions to take to the field and was the most travelled of the Irish formations. The division served as a formation of the United Kingdoms British Army during World War I, some battalions of the division were landed at Anzac and fought at Chunuk Bair. In September 1915, when the Suvla front became a stalemate, the division moved to Egypt in September 1917 where it joined General Chetwodes XX Corps. It fought in the Third Battle of Gaza which succeeded in breaking the resistance of the Turkish defenders in southern Palestine and this left only one British battalion per brigade. The remainder of the division remained in Palestine until the end of the war with Turkey on 31 October 1918, on 12 November 1918 the Division concentrated at Sarafand, ready for moving back to Egypt. By 1 December it had returned to Cairo, sinai and Palestine Campaign Third Battle of Gaza. Island of Ireland Peace Park Messines, Belgium, Thomas P. Dooley, Irishmen or English Soldiers. The Times of a Southern Catholic Irish Man, Liverpool Press, myles Dungan, They Shall not Grow Old, Irish Soldiers in the Great War, Four Courts Press, ISBN 1-85182-347-6. Keith Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, terence Denman, Irelands unknown Soldiers, The 16th Division in the Great War, Irish Academic Press, ISBN 0-7165-2495-3. Desmond & Jean Bowen, Heroic Option, The Irish in the British Army, Pen & Sword Books, steven Moore, The Irish on the Somme, ISBN 0-9549715-1-5. ISBN 978-1-84682-080-9 Stephen Walker, Forgotten Soldiers, The Irishmen shot at dawn Gill & Macmillan and our War Ireland and the Great War, The Thomas Davis Lectures, The Royal Irish Academy, Dublin ISBN 978-1-904890-50-8 Baker, Chris. A website with information relating to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who had battalions which were a part of the 10th Division

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10th Indian Infantry Division
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The 10th Indian Infantry Division was a war formed infantry division of the Indian Army during World War II. The 10th Indian Infantry Division was formed during World War II in Iraq in early 1941 under Major General William Fraser, command was passed in May 1941 to Major General William Bill Slim when Fraser fell ill. As part of Iraqforce, the division first fought in Iraq, in Syria, the division then moved on to North Africa for the battle for Libya. Initially the 10th Indian Infantry Division was committed piecemeal with units involved El Adem, Major General Rees responded that the division had only just concentrated and that defensive works were as yet inadequate. He believed therefore that the division was unlikely to be able to withstand an attack from Rommel. Gott immediately visited Rees and relieved him of command of the division, command passed to Major General John Nichols and as Rees had foretold, the division was overrun at the Mersa Matruh defences. Rees was posted to command 19th Indian Infantry Division in the Burma Campaign, Nichols was soon posted to command of the British 50th Infantry Division. The division then went to Cyprus for regrouping and hill training under Major General Alan Blaxland and then to Iraq to join the Tenth Army, part of Paiforce. In July 1943, Major General Wilfrid Lloyd took command when Blaxland was promoted and in January 1944, Reid remained in command until the end of British involvement in the division in 1947. The division fought the rest of the Italian Campaign, facing hard fighting northwards through central Italy with the Eighth Army, numerous mountain battles and river crossings followed with Operation Olive on the Gothic Line and then Operation Grapeshot. The 10th Indian Infantry Division earned many honours and decorations and suffered many casualties before final victory in Italy. Security tasks on the Yugoslav border around Trieste completed the 10th Indian Divisions war service. A. A. K, Fraser Major-General William Slim Major-General T. W. Rees Major-General J. S. Nichols Major-General A. B. Blaxland Major-General W. L, Lloyd Major-General D. W. Reid Kavanagh, M. D. The 10th Indian Division in the Italian Campaign, 1944–45, Training, Manpower, birmingham University, School of History and Cultures College of Arts and Law

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10th Infantry Division Piave
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The 10th Infantry Division Piave was a Infantry Division of the Italian Army during World War II. 10 June 1940 the Piave division was mobilized for war in Padua-Vicenza-Treviso area, from 2 to 8 February 1941, it moved to Sicily and spread around Casteltermini, Canicattì, Aragona and Mussomeli. It was subordinated to the XII Army Corps that time and it received equipment in February,1941 to change format to motorized division. Piave division was sent to Yugoslavia as the Invasion of Yugoslavia started 27 March 1941, Piave division has reached Pivka area by 16 April 1941, but returned to Liguria in May,1941, where it stayed until late October or early November,1942. From 12 November 1942, the Piave division was sent to area between Saint-Tropez and Grimaud in France as part of Case Anton operation. It returned to Italy 1–10 January 1943 and took part in the defence of southern approaches to Rome as part of the Corpo dArmata Motocorazzato, the Piave division was transferred again and in August,1943 has defended the area north of Rome around Via Cassia and Via Tiburtina. After armistice 8 September 1943, it received orders to be transferred to Palombara Sabina, the Piave division has counterattacked and forced the German forces to Monterotondo. Piave Artillery Regiment Tank Squadron 108, carabinieri Section Footnotes Citations Paoletti, Ciro

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10th Infantry Division (Philippines)
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The 10th Infantry Division, Philippine Army, also called the Agila Division, is one of the Philippine Armys Infantry units in Mindanao. Pursuant to HPA General Orders No, boac as the first Division Commander. The division also absorbed Task Force GenSan and 12th Field Artillery Battalion from 6ID, on February 11,2011, the Division moved to its permanent headquarters at Camp General Manuel T. Yan in Barangay Tuburan, Mawab, Compostela Valley Province. The Division has operational responsibility over the Davao Region, parts of Region 12, Trento, Agusan del Sur, 10ID AOR encompasses 4 Regions,12 provinces,7 cities,72 municipalities and 1,681 Barangays. Notable among them are the Toril Fish Port and the Gensan Port in Davao City and Gen Santos City, the area is also home of the biggest banana and pineapple plantations in the country. It has an airport and the commercially important Davao Gulf. Davao City is the center of Region 11, and its Francisco Bangoy International Airport is the third busiest airport in the country. Davao is a pot of various cultures, which include minority indigenous groups such as the Bagobo, Mandaya, Mansaka. Among the local languages spoken are Dinabaw, Visayan, as well as Filipino, the seal of the 10th Infantry Division is a symbolic statement of the unit’s heritage, identity, and mission in contemporary form. Its power depends on its simplicity and complexity, as well as its traditional, the basic symbols in the seal are the Philippine Eagle, shield, numeric number 10, and laurel leaves, word AGILA in capital letters, M16 rifle and the kris

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10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Greece)
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The 10th Infantry Regiment is a motorized infantry Regiment of the Hellenic Army. Headquartered in Serres and subordinated to the III Army Corps, it was formed from the former 10th Infantry Division on 1 July 2004, the 10th Infantry Division was originally formed in March 1913, in preparation for the Second Balkan War, where it participated. After the end of the war it was based at Veroia and it remained loyal to the royal government during the National Schism, and was withdrawn to Thessaly. After the Noemvriana, the 10th Infantry Division was again moved to Tripoli in the Peloponnese, in 1919, following the Greek landing at Smyrna, the Smyrna Division was formed there, which in November 1920 was renamed as the 10th Infantry Division. The division distinguished itself during the Asia Minor Campaign, particularly in the Battle of Afyonkarahisar–Eskişehir, during the Greek retreat in August 1922, it retreated orderly and evacuated over the Marmara Sea to Eastern Thrace. During the next few years it remained based in Veroia and it fought during the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41 and was disbanded after the Greek capitulation in April 1941. It was re-established at Thessaloniki in 1946 as the 10th Mountain Division, renamed to 10th Infantry Division, it was moved to Serres in July 1950, where it remains to this day. It received the honor title Rupel in 2000, in memory of the Rupel Fortress and it re-acquired a national role after having been reduced to a headquarters-only formation for NATO use. 10th Signals Company 10th Engineer Company 567th Motorized Infantry Battalion at Sidirokastro, 518th Motorized Infantry Battalion located at Kato Nevrokopi

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31st Infantry Division (United States)
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The 31st Infantry Division was a unit of the Army National Guard in World War I and World War II. It was originally activated as the 10th, an established in early 1917 consisting of Alabama, Florida. By the end of same year, the 10th Division became the 31st. In World War II, national guardsmen from Mississippi were included in the division, the division was activated in October 1917. It was activated for WW I at Camp Gordon, Georgia and it comprised the 61st Infantry Brigade and the 62nd Infantry Brigade, with four infantry regiments between them. It went overseas in September 1918, upon arrival in France, the 31st was designated as a replacement division. The personnel of most of the units were withdrawn and sent to other organizations as replacements for combat casualties. Commanders, Maj. Gen. F. J. Kernan, Brig. Gen. J. L. Hayden, Maj. Gen. F. H. French, Brig. Gen. W. A. Harris. The 31st Dixie Division was part of the Army of Occupation in Southern Germany at Koblenz, the division returned to the US in July 1919, to Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina where its soldiers were mustered out of active service. Awards, MH-1, DSC-7, DSM-3, SS-178, LM-11, DFC-1, SM-73, BS-948, persons, Maj. Gen. Clarence A. Martin. Returned to U. S.12 December 1945, the 31st Infantry Division arrived in Oro Bay, New Guinea,24 April 1944, and engaged in amphibious training prior to entering combat. During the war, at times its units included the 124th Infantry Regiment, the 155th Infantry Regiment from Mississippi, the 156th Infantry Regiment. The 156th Infantry Regiment of the Louisiana National Guard was separated from the 31st Division on 14 July 1942, portions of the unit participated in the D-Day landings with the entire unit being reunited on 24 June 1944. The unit was used to guard the Allied Expeditionary HQs. The unit returned to the US on 11 March 1946, alerted on 25 June 1944 for movement to Aitape, New Guinea, the 124th RCT left Oro Bay and landed at Aitape 3–6 July 1944. The combat team moved up to advanced positions and took part in the offensive launched 13 July. Over 1,000 Japanese were killed in these actions, in mid-August the division began to stage for a landing on Morotai, leaving Aitape and Maffin Bay,11 September 1944. The division made a landing on Morotai,15 September 1944

The 31st Infantry Division was a unit of the Army National Guard in World War I and World War II. It was originally …

World War II combat survivors of Company B, 124th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 31st Infantry Division. The regiment arrived at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation on 14 December 1945 and was inactivated two days later at Camp Stoneman, California, where this photo was taken.